Was looking for something else at The Online Books Page and ran across this 1917 treatise on shell-shock. I've only glanced at it quickly but apart from some hair-curling mentions of electricity and "baths" that are a product of their times, there seems to be a fair amount of good sense in it. Interesting given the usual assumption that most mental health treatment was brutish before the current generation. Now, as soon as I say this someone will take a closer look at the book and find something really godawful, but actually it looks not so bad.
Posted by Martha Bridegam at November 18, 2004 11:00 PMWhat seems godawful, after reading the first chapter (The Nature of Shell Shock), is that when we send people off to war, death is not the worse thing that could happen to them.
Posted by: Bobby Farouk at November 19, 2004 07:58 AM